Antiskidding chain.



J. I. EDGERTON.

AN'IISKIDDING CHAIN.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 12, 1910.

Patel med Aug. 30, 1910.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'JAMES IVESEDGERTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ANTISKIDDING CKAIN.

Specification of Letters Patent. Pat t d A 30, 1910, Application filed January 12. 1910, r

Serial No. 537,707.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l. Janus Ives Eocun'ron, a citizen of the United States. residing at New York. in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful linprovemcuts in Antiskidding Chains, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in anti-skidding chains for automobiles and the like and the object of my invention is tq provide a chain having great durability and one in which the wear 1S evenly distributed over a large body of chain instead of being confined to a few links.

A further object of my invention is to provide means whereby the chain may be View of a portion of the preferred form of.

chain with the parts in position, and Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of a portion of the chain.

1O designates a' wheel provided with 'a. tire 11 mounted on the rimJQ, these parts. being shown merely for the purpose of illuswill consequently be distributed over the trating the application of'm invention,

13 is a pair of parallel sid chains which are connected together at intervals by the transverse endless chains is; whichpass.

through links in the chains as shown. The links of the side chains through which the transverse chains .pass are of such a; size as to permit the transverse chains to readily slip through them. In the form of my invention shown all the links of the side chains are the same size but this is immaterial .as it is only necessary that the links of these chains through which the transverse chains pass he of a size to permit the passage of the side chains while the other links of saitl; chains ma be of any size or form described.

Prefers ly and as shown I provide at,

one end of each of the side chains a means to engage a link of the side chain at the other. end, such means being shown as comprising a. air of snap-hooks 15 which may be passed odily through the end links and than the chain doubled back and the hook snapped into a link after the side chain has.

been drawn taut. i

In order to assist in placing the chains'on the-tire I preferably provide 'a. pair of chains 16 provided with a snap hook 17 at each end thereof, these chains being also preferably covered with rubber t-libin 18 or the like to prevent marrin the wheel, In the operation of these 'attac ing chains, one of them is attached adjacent each end of one of the side chains adjacent the end cross chain, and then the attachin chain is passed under the rim and is secure to a link of the opposite side chain. The wheel can now be revolved and the cross chains "arranged across the tire'with the side chains in' posi-' tion. When the chain has been completely wrapped around the tire the second attaching chain may he passed under therim to hold the free end while thesnap hooks 15 are passed through the-end links and then drawn hack to pull the side chains taut when the hooks are engaged with whatever link they may reach. The attaching chains may now be disengaged on one side and snapped.

hack on the same side chains or removed entirely.

It will be observed that by having the cross chains endless and through assin links of the side chains suti icient y large to permit. the slipping of the cross chains through the links, the links covering the trend of the wheel will change and the wear entire leng th of the cross chains instead of i n hand by merely sliding the cross chains through the links of the side chains;

I realize that. considerable variation 15 possible .in the details of construction and 9.1-

rangement of parts without departing from the spirit of'my invention, and I therefore do not-intend to limit myself to the specific form shown and described.

Having thus described my invention what I'claim as new and desire to, secure by Letters Patent 1st combination with a pair of side chains, of a v 11o Lin :1 device of the class described, the

series of enlless ti'ah sverse chains, eechpf which passes through at single link carried. hy the eilie eheihs, whereby the runs of said tmneveme chains me side by'side, the links three. h which the transverse chains pass emi t e tieheveree chains heingof such relezive size es t0 the latter to slide theoegh the ionizer; c

Q" "in e deviee ef the class described, the combination with veaqeeiie ef side chains, of a series of endless 'trensveree chains, each of.

said treneversechains passing three 11 a single iink of each;side chain, saicl inks of such relative sizeas to the siole in presence 0 two ivitnesses.

inatiore. with an anti-skidding device for Wheels, said cleviee being formed eeegei of a pair of side chains connected together by an enti-skicldin tread adapted to extend across the tire of t e wheel, of a device for temporarily holding one end of said side chains while their ends are being fastened together, said device comprising a flexible vsection previded with means at each end for detachably en agin the side chains ad jaceht one end t ereo and to be passed beneath the felly of the Wheel to which the anti -s kidding device is to be attached whereby said device may be readily wound u on the wheel'end the ends of the side" 0 ains secured together.

In testimon whereof I afiix my signature JAMES IVES EDGEBTON: I

Witnesses W11. R. MOORE, FRANCIS M. PHELPS. 

